Every quarter, Oracle releases a Critical Patch Update (CPU) that fixes a number of security vulnerabilities in the Oracle Database. This quarterly educational session will focus on the October 2011 CPU and the impact on the Oracle Database. The topics will include:

A review of the security vulnerabilities fixed in this CPU,

An analysis of the required CPU patches,

A discussion of patching including CPUs vs. PSUs.

Example vulnerabilities will be demonstrated in order to show how easy it is exploit many of the fixed security bugs.